MOSCOW (AP) – Russian warplanes and troops stationed at Russia’s air base in Syria started leaving for home on Tuesday after a partial pullout order from President Vladimir Putin the previous day, a step that raises hopes for progress at the newly reconvened U.N.-brokered peace talks in Geneva. The U.N. …

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) – Myanmar’s parliament elected Htin Kyaw as the country’s new president Tuesday in a watershed moment that ushers the longtime opposition party of Aung San Suu Kyi into government after 54 years of direct or indirect military rule. The joint session of the two houses of parliament …

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) – Myanmar’s parliament elects a new president on Tuesday to head the country’s first democratically elected government, but it won’t be Aung San Suu Kyi, the face of the nation’s decades-long struggle against military rule. Here’s why: WHAT PREVENTED SUU KYI? The military has been in power …

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) – Macedonia sent back hundreds of refugees to Greece on Tuesday, a day after they bypassed a border fence in a mass push to continue their journey north to Europe’s prosperous heartland – a move Greece blamed on “criminal misinformation” possibly spread by volunteers working with them. …

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – Institutional investors are suing automaker Volkswagen in a German court, seeking 3.25 billion euros ($3.57 billion) in damages over the company’s diesel emissions scandal. Attorney Andreas Tilp said Tuesday in a statement that the suit was joined by investors from 14 countries, including the U.S., Australia, …

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – Turkey’s air force hit Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Monday, hours after a suicide car bombing in the capital killed 37 people and heightened tensions with the militants. Nine F-16s and two F-4 jets raided 18 positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, …

GRAND-BASSAM, Ivory Coast (AP) – Survivors of the first attack by Islamic extremists in Ivory Coast described scenes of confusion and fear as the jihadists gunned down defenseless civilians at a beachfront resort town. The attack left 16 dead. Those who make a living off tourism believed the attack on …

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is holding what her agenda describes as a “political coordination” meeting one day after nationwide demonstrations urging her ouster brought millions into the streets. Brazil’s top newspapers said Sunday’s protests were the largest political demonstrations in the country’s history. The …

BEIRUT (AP) – They are as old as the Syrian war: Five-year-old Syrian children growing up as refugees in foreign, unfamiliar places far away from home. They are the silent victims of a horrific war, innocent of the violence that surrounds them yet already familiar with grown-up words like war, …

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) – More than 80 percent of Syria’s children have been harmed by the country’s conflict, including growing numbers of those who were forced to work, join armed groups or marry young because of widening poverty, the U.N. children’s agency said Monday, on the fifth anniversary of the …